Huntsville gazette., 1887-11-12
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

1 seUlDb5Q All dSSduib upOA hios
| Kelly, near Newbury, Tenn, was captured
| few days ago. Fifty negroes tried to
release him, but the whites held him, and
| took him to the bank of creek near New
+ bury, where he made confession. 1t is
/ said that he was hanged by the mob.
7 John Johnston diedrecently near Wales
/ Station, Gil les County, Tenn, aged ninety
| eight. He was born in Charlotte County,
| Va.
| Mr.. Thomas Grinter one Of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of Trigg
| County, KY, died a few days ago after
| long Illness. He was sixty-five years of
/ age and has been engaged in the banking
business in Cadiz for number of years.
| Near Sturgis, Tenn, "a few days ago,
while colored minister, named Depew,
| was making speech to a small emlgra-
/ tion meeting, another colored man on the
! outside of the building fired on him
/ through the only open window OF the
/ house, and blew out his brains, killing
! him instantly. The murderer was ar
rested, the next day got away, was re-
1 arrested and escaped the second time. Ii
/ appears that the preacher was about to
report the murderer for calf stealing and
+ he and his brother got up the so-caIled
]
! purpose of discussing Liberia as future
I home, but really to get the victim where
he could be killed, and that they left that
/ special window open because it command
/ ed the speakers stand, to which the old
! man was to be called.
| Tie grand jury at Memphis, Tenn, are
| making an investigation of the books of
4 Wharfmaster Kallaher.
1 A GAINESVILLE (Ga.) dispatch announces
! the death of Captain Daniel G. Gambler,
! Of the famous Banks County Guards.
/ The colored strikers on the Louisiana
/ plantations have taken to shooting the
\ laborers who remain faithful to their EN-
/ ployers.
Clarence A. Hill. clerk in Peterman's
grocery store at Jacksonville, Fla. is
missing, and it is supposed he has com
mitted suicide.
Virginia makes formal provision in her
! code for the expatriationo Of any Of her cit
/ liens who may desire to relinquish cit'
1 zenship.
| A report was circulated a few days age
that Jeff Davis was dying, viii ch is now
! followed by the announ cement that ne is
| in fine spirits and in better health than
usual
/ A fatal affraY, in which nine white men
were killed and four wounded by negroes.
! Is reported from the sugar strik region OF
| Louisiana.
| Luke Russell, young farmer Of Craven
/ County. N. c., while assisting to arrest
/ Bill Williams, colored, few days ago
was shot and killed b the latter, who es-
capped.
Bv an oversight of the State authorities
| OF Georgia, Charlotte Jones, convict
was not released at the expiration OF hei
sentence, and she has been illegally de-
prived Of her liberty for fourteen months
Chris. Heckley fell from the roof Of Lin
ming g. Jackson's foundry, at Paducah
XIV, where he was at work, q few days
ago. and sustained fatal injuries. He has
q wife and family.
The monthly cotton report for the Mem
! Dhis district shows that there has been q
marked Improvement, owing to favorable
weather toward the 'ose of the season,
and the WELD now IS estimated at IA 1-2
per cent. less than that of last year.
Mrs. General t. r. r. Cobb, of Atlanta,
Ca, has the original draft Of the Confed'
crate Constitution as it came from the
committee who drafted it. 1t is said that
Photographer Sarony, Of New York, owns
the Constitution as finally adopted by the
Confederate Congress.
Mrs Matte Johnson, one Of the charac-
ters of Paducah, KY, died few days
since, aged seventy-four years She has
lived in Paducah for more than forty
wears. and bore the reputation among the
neighbors of being confirmed miser.
The steam gin on the Melrose planta'
ton, in Natchitoches Parish, La, which
belongs to James Henry, was burned {
few nights ago, together with 100 bales O
cotton. The loss is partly covered by in
suratlce a colored man named Andrew
White has been arrested on suspicion o
having set fire to the gin.
Mr.. Thomas Null. who killed mar
named Thomas, about year and hall
ago at Holly Grove, Ark, was acquitted
by jury at Mariana. A change OF
venue was takan from the county where
the killing took place to Lee County. Mr.
Null is a Mississippian, but has large farm
ing interests in Arkansas.
", "Dinlu Buckalew, the noted desperate
has served written notices on half dozer
prominent citizens of Chambers County
Ala, that be intends to burn them out ant
kill them. He has murdered four men
Within the last three months Buckalew'i
life has been one Of outlawry.
VIM. Bryson, a coored railroader, was
knocked in the head by a gang Of thugs il
Knoxville, Tenn. few nights ago, ant
robbed Of his watch and fifty dollars. Hi
skull was fractured and he was momenta
rily expected to die. The city il overrui
with criminals, and several small, but
daring robberies have occurred recently
C. c. Martin, editor of the ADnlanche,
weekly paper published in Atlanta. Ga.
has been indicted for bigamy. he claims
there is no truth in the charge agains
him, and that the Indictment is th'
malicious work of the Prohibitionists, who
compose a majority Of the grand jury
and whose pet theory he has combat ted II
his paper,
Information reached the revenue
agents Office at Atlanta few days age
that VIM A. Morgan, of Haralson County
was beaten to death with stick by |
party Of moonshiners on the night of &c
tober 30. This is the terrible sequel Of
long story Of crime in HARRISON, whicl
began last January.
The scaffolding in the Methodist Church
, at Franklin, KY, proke down few day
ago, precipitating five prominent citizen
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